Regarding the article “Council candidates talk trash,” it’s clear that Ginny Dickey didn’t get the message delivered in Massachusetts on Jan. 19. She continues to push for bigger government, apparently believing that people are too stupid to think for themselves and that government needs to make decisions for them.

Curbside recycling is available today to all residents of Fountain Hills; if a citizen doesn’t buy into the Al Gore way of life, big government shouldn’t force them to.

And I say this with a smile as a holder of a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental studies. Education, not big government, is the key to increasing recycling participation, as well as other Earth-friendly behaviors. Not to mention providing income for local non-profit organizations whose fund raising Ms. Dickey plans to decimate, perhaps because they aren’t government affiliated with unionized workers.

One point she did make that many could support is the reduction in road maintenance cost. She uses very specific numbers in stating “road repairs reduced conservatively by 21 percent.” OK, what’s that savings in real dollars?

And are Director of Public Works Tom Ward and Superintendent of Streets  Ken Kurth ready to sign up to immediately eliminate that amount from the road maintenance budget, starting the day that a garbage monopoly begins?

And more importantly, are both ready to potentially lose their jobs and Ms. Dickey step down from the Town Council if those savings aren’t immediately rendered back to the townspeople through a garbage monopoly?

Those of us in the private sector are at risk of losing our jobs if we push a large budget savings and later can’t meet the projected savings. That doesn’t ever seem to happen in Big Government. If she’s not willing, then all I hear is more Big Government blather.